Brian P. Miller, Ph.D.
Sam Frumer Professor

Associate Chair of MBA Program
Kelley School of Business

Indiana University

Brian P. Miller is the Sam Frumer Professor and Associate Chair of the MBA Program at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. He received his Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University and has taught for more than fifteen years at a Indiana University.

Professor Miller’s teaching focuses on accounting for decision making that spans both managerial and financial accounting topics. This focus enables him to combine his practical experience with his research interests. He currently teaches the Financial Accounting course in the Kelley MBA Core, as well as, a combined Financial and Managerial Accounting Course in the on-Line Kelley MBA Program. He has also taught an Executive MBA Financial and Managerial Accounting courses in Seoul Korea and for several companies. He has received numerous teaching awards during his career including Residential MBA Faculty of the Year including the prestigious Eli Lilly Alumni MBA Teaching Excellence Award.

Prior to becoming an academic he worked at public accounting and as a finance manager at Procter & Gamble. In particular, he served as a financial analyst in fabric care, a cost analyst in the company’s new business development group, and as a cost forecaster for a multi-billion dollar segment of the company. During his time at Procter & Gamble he was awarded the Outstanding Achievements in Fabric Care in Finance and Accounting.

His research is focused on measuring managerial talent, management disclosure decisions, and the penalties managers pay for misreporting. He serves as an associate editor at Management Science and his work has been published in several prestigious journals including The Accounting Review, The Journal of Accounting and Economics, Management Science, and The Review of Accounting Studies. He is also the recipient of the awarded American Accounting Association’s Notable Contribution to the Accounting Literature Award.